Skill/spell pages creation

Summary:

A method to create skill/spell pages faster.

Skill/spell pages creation

xyzzyn 06 Mar 2008 02:40

Hi,

I’ve written a script that lets you convert the output of help skill foo in RetroMUD to the wikidot syntax and formats it like the existing pages. It’s a sed script, so if you have a Unix system (e. g. some Linux distro), you can run it. How to use: download retrowikify.sed below (click on ‘Files’ for the link) and

1. Do help skill foo in RetroMUD.
2. Copy the output, beginning with the first non-empty line after 'Help for skill:' and until the last line of the description.
3. Run sed -f retrowikify.sed | dd ibs=8192 in a terminal.
4. Paste what you copied, in the terminal. Hit enter if you didn’t copy the last linebreak. Hit ctrl-D after pasting.
5. Copy the output of the script, paste it into the edit box on the wiki and adjust as needed.

It’s faster than the description makes it sound, really, and saves a lot of typing. I’m using GNU sed, no idea if this works with others, too.

The creation of a better script is left as an exercise for the enthusiastic reader.

Last edited on 06 Mar 2008 02:43 by xyzzyn Show more

Re: Skill/spell pages creation

xyzzyn 14 Mar 2008 10:03

Another bit of Unixy stuff: the command
dd ibs=16384 obs=16384 | sed -e 's/[^[:alpha:][:space:]]//g' -e 's/^[[:space:]]*/[[[/' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$/]]],/' | sed -e :foo -e N -e 's/\n/ /' -e 't foo'
can turn a copy of the tert choices from a secondary guild page on the retromud.org site into a list of links, e. g.

                                                +-Disciple
                                                +-Faith healer
                                                +-Guardian acolyte
                                                +-Guardian priest
                                                +-Inquisitor
                                                +-Lazarite

into

[[[Disciple]]], [[[Faith healer]]], [[[Guardian acolyte]]], [[[Guardian priest]]], [[[Inquisitor]]], [[[Lazarite]]],

That makes creating secondary pages with lots of terts a bit faster. (And, yes, the sed stuff could be more compact.)